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...born in upper-class Victorian society. Her father was a rich dilettante, her mother a society figure. Florence, a slight, willowy girl with chestnut hair, sparkled at parties and balls, traveled on the Continent. She had a rush of eligible suitors, including young Richard Monckton Milnes, socialite, poet and philanthropist...
Died. Samuel Simeon Fels, 90, president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...
There is one big philanthropist left -the U.S. Government. But of all the solutions U.S. higher education could hit upon, this seems, to private educators at least, the most dangerous...
Wertheim was 64 when he died May 27 at his estate in Connecticut. he was a noted financier, philanthropist, and sportsman, and founder and director of the New York Theatre Guild. He willed the major part of his estate to his wife...
...great paper, Arthur Sulzberger always amiably replies: "Do as I did-marry the boss's daughter." But his remark is not in the Times tradition of fairness; Sulzberger did much more to earn his job. Manhattan-born, the son of Cyrus Leo Sulzberger; a cotton-textile manufacturer, philanthropist and later anti-Tammany candidate for borough president, Sulzberger was brought up on the Times, went to Horace Mann school and Columbia College. There he was on the swimming team, danced as a chorus boy in a musical and met Iphigene Ochs, a student at Barnard College. She was the only...